Effect of vertical vortex-induced vibration of bridge on railway vehicle’s running performance

Abstract

The long-span bridge consisting of separated box steel girders is prone to vertical vortex-induced vibration (VIV) within the operating a wind speed range of the train. Based on the wind-train-track-bridge (WTTB) dynamic model, this study presents an analysis method considering VIV effects and investigates the effects of vertical VIVs on the dynamic responses of the train-track-bridge system under crosswinds. It is found that the vertical VIV mainly affects the derailment factor, the offload factor, the vertical car-body acceleration, the vertical car-body Sperling index, and the vertical acceleration of bridge decks, and has less impact on other indexes. The vertical dynamic response of vehicles and bridges increases with the vertical VIV modal order, amplitude and frequency. Furthermore, the impact of the high-order vertical VIV modal is outstandingly more significant than that of the low-order vertical VIV modal.

KEYWORDS:

• Vortex-induced vibration
• train-track-bridge interaction
• crosswinds
• dynamic analysis
• running safety
• high-speed railway bridge

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under grant number LY19E080016 and LQ20E080025, Education of Zhejiang Province of China under grant number Y201840370 and Y202045351, and Science and Technology Project of Jiaxing under grant number 2022AD30114 and 2020AD30027.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).